Kendrick Lamar Heads Into Film With “Black Panther” Soundtrack

High-flying rapper Kendrick Lamar is making his first soundtrack as he released a song Thursday with singer SZA for the upcoming superhero film “Black Panther.”

Lamar, whose socially conscious and often experimental hip-hop has won him wide critical praise, will produce the soundtrack for the movie which comes out on February 16.

He and hip-hop executive Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith will record and select tracks for “Black Panther,” a film adaptation of Marvel Comics’ breakthrough black superhero story about a king of a fictional African nation.